What is the burden of “objectivity” and “balance” for freelancers? Read more

Prestige media sites that don’t need to make money are going to be the only ones to survive. Read more

This is really exciting, but I also feel very cynical. Yeah sure it will start out with interesting, thoughtful pieces, but at some point they are going to want to increase their ad revenue and then all of sudden it’s going the regular schlock. :( Read more

Cis. Read more

It’s not just money. It’s about undoing absolutely everything Obama ever did. These racist fucks aren’t even trying to hide it. Read more

To be fair Betsy Devos may literally be too sheltered and too stupid to grasp how evil she is, then again Eric Prince is her brother and he’s a bad 80s action villain. Read more

Don’t forget that “fittest” means having the “sense” to be born rich. You know what they say, babies choose to be born where they’re born. If we had only been smart and scrappy enough, we’d have chosen to be born into better economic circumstances. Obvs. Read more

It’s money, isn’t it? Read more

By removing forced protections, they’re creating a survival-of-the-“fittest” situation where “fittest” is whoever they like most as a demographic. Read more

Because Obama did it or liked it. And because so much of GOP politics and Trump’s in particular begin and end with “Fuck Obama”. They really got put out by those eight years of a black man running the country and actually being really good at it, they need to screw over his legacy as much as possible. Read more

It’s this weird-ass sort of eugenics they’re wanting to do. If you can’t “hack it” through their bullshit American hazing ritual — involving being the right skin color, conforming to certain cultural roles they want to enforce, etc — you just don’t make it and out you go. By removing forced protections, they’re… Read more

A photo of a woman on her knees cleaning = support for Trump. I guess she’s staying on brand.. Read more

Fascinating how “cutting executive pay” is always way down the list when it comes to time to pay for bad decisions made by executives. Read more

You know what might have actually helped in the long term? Cutting the executives, some of whom are surely making some pretty large salaries, who decided overpaying for TV rights was a good idea. Read more

One of the most interesting pieces of conversation come from the desires of the blind man who “purchased” Chris at auction. He starts off their conversation by sharing how much he admired his work, how he failed at being a great artist bc he lacked “the eye” and how it took him to his current path - which, if you… Read more

When Rod is at Chris’s apartment trying to call his cell phone and gets Rose instead, there’s an ad for the United Negro College Fund playing on TV. The slogan, “A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” sounds a lot more sinister in context. Read more

Remember when everyone was worried about a vast oil conspiracy in the Middle East being carried out by the Hawks (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz) who were pulling W’s strings during his Presidency? Read more

I was in the field on and off for about 20 years on the opposite coast before I bailed. There are starfuckers, glory hounds and people in it for the dinner party conversation fodder. Read more

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